In December 2024, renowned multimedia artist Samantha Heydt showcased her powerful work with SHIM Art Network at the prestigious Aqua Art Fair during Art Basel Miami. Heydt’s thought-provoking pieces from her acclaimed series Edge of Chaos captivated audiences, blending photography, collage, and incisive social commentary. Her work explored themes of environmental degradation, societal fragmentation, and the illusions of progress, offering a striking critique of contemporary life. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Aqua Art Fair, Heydt’s exhibition invited viewers to reflect on the precarious balance between chaos and order in an ever-changing world, leaving a lasting impression on Miami’s Art Week.
Set within the historic Palazzo Pisani Revedin in Venice, Italy, PATHs is a pioneering satellite art exhibition running parallel to the 60th Venice Biennale this Fall 2024. This chapter of the installation, featuring and curated by multidisciplinary artist @SamHeydt—founder of @Kitsch-Art-Bodega—explores the Biennale's theme, “Foreigners Everywhere,” through a dynamic interplay of artistic voices and diverse mediums.
📅 Exhibition Dates: September 24 - November 24, 2024
📍 Venue: Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, Italy
10th International Art Resilience Fair, Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou, Saint-Frajou, France, August 17th to Sept 17th, 2024.
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Arte Laguna Prize [winner] 16th Edition | Venice, Italy | February 2022
Arte Laguna Prize, the world’s most influential competition for artists and designers, showcases and promotes creative talent. With 17 years of history, Arte Laguna Prize offers the opportunity to join the huge network of collaborations around the world. Exhibition of the finalist artists in the breathtaking location of the Arsenale of Venice and much more.
#Post RE:SET@New Future
The Covid-19 crisis, and the political, economic and social disruptions it has caused, is fundamentally changing the traditional context for decision-making. The inconsistencies, inadequacies and contradictions of multiple systems –from health and financial to energy and education – are more exposed than ever amidst a global context of concern for lives, livelihoods and the planet.
The measures against the spread of Covid-19 have also shown how to fight against climate change and how a new normality marked by the fourth revolution and the global reset will direct our new future.
the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being. These dimensions are called the fourth global revolution or a new global order.
Previous industrial revolutions liberated humankind from animal power, made mass production possible and brought digital capabilities to billions of people. This Fourth Industrial Revolution is, however, fundamentally different. It is characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human, that is, we arrive at Transhumanism.
The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s happening at exponential speed.
At the end, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Transhumanism will be achieved through the merging of our physical, digital, and biological identities, along with a new social contract which includes social credit and ecological credit for each individual.
These fusions are advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, genetic engineering (gene editing with CRISPR technology), smart vaccines (mRNA), quantum computing, virtual reality, Blockchain, artificial intelligence and other technologies. It’s the collective force behind many products and services that are fast becoming indispensable to the new global life, what matters now is the common good and the green philosophy.
How do we find hope in this Great Reset era?
The latest watershed advances occurring in the world around us directly affect the aesthetics of our visions. Our senses are alert, excited, moved, and impassioned by the pulsating rhythm of culture.
The proposl focuses on a positive, meta-creative and enlightened view of human potential, aesthetic design in technology, the prevalence of science, and aestheticism in the future architecture of life.
We are exploring how current and future technologies affect our senses, our cognition and our lives. Our attention to these relationships become fields of art as we participate in the most immediate and vital issues for the Post Reset and the Transhumanity.
The digital exhibition focuses on discussing these changes we are facing today and how art is responding to them. The creation by the artist is a hint for the products and their innovations that will create lifestyles and social consciousness in the future.
#Post RE:SET@ New Future features the works by numerous artists working on shaping the future. Works are selected and divided into the following four categories - “future envisioned by art”, “art possessing the future”, “creativity shaping the future”, “another future civilization” and “open futuristic themes”.
CURATOR: JESUS RIVERO
PIAFF, Paris International Animation Film Festival, 15 Ed., Cinema Studio des Ursulines, Paris, France. January 18- 22, 2023
Art Nova 100 | Arte Laguna Prize Finalist | Beijing, China | February 2022
Art Nova 100 was first launched in September of 2011, and for its series of annual art exhibitions and promotion events, Art Nova 100 each year nominates about 100 artists from across China, as well as invites a small selection of international artists. All the artists were born in or after 1975 and work in a variety of media, including oil painting, sculpture, ink on paper, printmaking, photography and installation. The exhibition tour of these artists’ works takes place both in China and abroad. These exhibitions and their related events provide a large-scale promoting platform for the most promising young artists.
Art Nova 100 exhibition has toured Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Ordos, Hong Kong, Macao, and other cities. At the same time, Art Nova 100 has cooperated with various organizations to hold theme exhibitions, including "1 in 100 • Young Artists Solo Exhibition". While the 2013 Art Nova 100 continues to improve its domestic exhibition platform, it is also growing its presence overseas, bringing outstanding young artists to new international audiences. Art Nova 100 will continueto coordinate tour exhibitions, theme exhibitions, solo exhibitions, academic publications, artist promotion, cross-border cooperation, and international promotion into a fully integrated platform for young artists. All these activities offer young artists an access to powerful resources and communities through which they can demonstrate their talent and aiding their causes as an artist.
The Institution promotes artistic expression to analyze and improve our environment with cultural practices involving the participation of the university community in fundamental areas such as art, through the dissemination of culture with inclusion. The UAEMéx announces the 9th International Biennial of University Visual Art, which will allow participants to contribute their point of view on current issues and encourage social reflection by way of an artistic proposal.
With the eight previous editions of the International Biennial of University Visual Art, the knowledge and research in the field of art has been extended to an international level.
The Paus Premieres Festival, London, UK. July 29, 2022
The paus is a launch-pad for filmmakers, providing enhanced live and on-demand digital film screenings, powered by tipping. We are democratising the film industry by giving independent filmmakers the tools they need to earn money directly from their core fans. The paus premieres festival is celebrating the success of our platform and creating a virtual event on 9th July. Our previous screenings have featured stars such as Sir Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey, Conleth Hill, and included work from BAFTA award winners, Oscar-nominated directors, as well as receiving press coverage from Screen Daily, Business Insider, IBC daily, and many more.
MAPP_MTL et le réseau de MAPP International sont ravi.e.s de présenter le prochain MINUTE_MAPP le 22 septembre, dans le cadre de la fête de quartier numérique au Skatepark Van Horne pour le festival MAPP_MTL 2022. Le canevas de création est la grande façade de l’iconique Million Tapis et Tuiles devant le Skatepark Van Horne. La thématique est "Multiples dimensions".
Le public sera invité à assister aux projections et un jury prestigieux décernera un prix spécial à leur Minute préférée. L'événement sera également diffusé en ligne, où l’audience pourra voter pour le prix du public.
MINUTE_MAPP a vu le jour à Montréal en 2013. C’est un événement qui présente des créations de projection mapping de 60 secondes chacune sur différentes surfaces, mettant en vedette un éventail diversifié de créateurs de différents milieux, dont plusieurs expérimentent pour la première fois cette forme de création.
Plus de détails sur la surface de projection, le format de soumission, les plans de présentation et plus encore, vous seront communiqués après avoir rempli ce formulaire.
La date limite pour nous envoyer vos créations est le 12 septembre mais inscrivez-vous dès maintenant pour recevoir les informations pour commencer votre MINUTE_MAPP → https://bit.ly/minutemapp
TOAF Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, 61st ed, Toronto, Canada. July 8 - 17, 2022
Canada's leading contemporary outdoor art fair is celebrating 61 years of launching artists' careers this July 8-17, 2022. Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (TOAF)
Rencontres Internationales, The Louvre Museum, Paris, France. May 2-8, 2022.
A major event dedicated to contemporary practices of moving images, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will take place from 2 to 8 May 2022 in Paris
minus20degree (abbreviated to m20d) is a contemporary art and architecture exhibition that takes place every 2 years in Austria. | January 20 - 22, 2022.
The curatorial idea of this exhibition is to “invade/infect” the Museum, in its various spaces, with works of art, technology and science, all of them focused on the Pandemic theme, from scientific aspects of virus replication, to social aspects of its effects on the society.
The works and artists to be presented in this exhibition, resulted from a selection of participants in the online edition of the “Maker Art” section, promoted by the Festival through an international Open Call. Pandemic was the inevitable leitmotiv of this Open Call.
The relationship between art and catastrophes, or isolation, is not new, but the crossing of these two realities with the planet of biological and digital viruses, yes, it is a new, striking and lasting experience.
Collective Exhibition
Curatorship Sofia Marçal
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (National Museum of Natural History and Science)
Opening: July 15
Exhibition: Until September 30
Rua da Escola Politécnica, 60, 1250-102 Lisbon, Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm.
Closed on mondays and holidays. Paid access (Museum entry ticket), except on Sundays, from 10 am to 2 pm.
Chania International Photo festival has been created by Blank Wall Gallery. Its aim is to gather more than 320 photographers from around the world each year, turning the town of Chania into an international centre of artistic expression focusing on photography. During the last two years, we managed to make this festival an established international institution. In our effort the Municipality of Chania responded favorably as a co organiser, offering the venues for the festival to be held.
ArtsLibris
Barcelona -2021
ArtsLibris reaches its twelfth edition, which will take place on June 18, 19, and 20 in the “espai Fossat” of the Mercat de Sant Antoni, with the collaboration of the Mercat Dominical del Llibre.
Eighty-eight publishers and artists, institutions, and art schools of Barcelona will accompany us with their publications. Forty percent of the exhibitors come from outside the city, to whom we are especially grateful for the effort to be present. Although some publishers and artists from Latin America and the rest of Europe will not be able to travel this year, their publications will. In addition, we will reinforce online activities to feel closer to those who will not be able to join us in person. ArtsLibris kicks off on the 17th with the International Seminar, coordinated by philosopher Andrea Soto Calderón, which will take place at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.
Art Gate VR is a platform that leases spaces to galleries in virtual reality. Your global audience can explore and collect real art with Art Gate.
In the context of Šiluva, the term “Touched Land” can be understood on several levels: Šiluva is an area of exceptional sacral value, touched by the feet of the Mother of God, tired pilgrims and the Pope. This place is daily passed by local people and preachers. The touched land can be either the heart or he soul of a person who has experienced the power of touch in solitude or togetherness. As well, the touched land can be creation by human, which could bring at least one step closer to the divine reality. The touched land may be the one who may not yet know that it longs for touch…
Magenta presents Mink Festival, an exhibition inspired by the zoo of the pandemic:
December 21, 2020 - March 21, 2021
The animal in the pandemic, the animal and the pandemic.
The animal as a cause of the pandemic_bats and other animals packed and sold in markets
The animal as a pet saviour _ the dog as an extension, a passport for exit during the lockdowns
The animal as a postponed accessory hecatomb_ million minks killed, just in case they may have transmitted a mutation of the virus to humans
Humans care for their dead. The minks are also our dead, not just the human victims of the pandemic.
Has the pandemic trauma rendered us indifferent, or are we embodying the trauma, obtaining the power of our coronavirus enemy by performing a mass animal killing?
“We will not go back to normal. Normal never was…”
Sonya Renee Taylor
The Viral and Racial Pandemic confirms that the structures established for collective order in the United States of America failed. Colleges are run like companies and the criminal justice system like corporations. Corporations are bailed out with trillions of tax-payer’s dollars while citizens are made homeless by eviction. At our nation’s border desperate families are separated, and children caged. Hospitals struggle with depleted resources during a global pandemic, and police continue to brutalize black citizens. All this while the U.S. elected President orders the use of clubs and tear gas on peaceful protesters to enable a quick photo shoot with a bible.
Many in the United States of America clearly do not have the inalienable rights promised to them by the Constitution. The ‘Great American Dream’– championed as the right of every citizen– is a sham. Hard work does not guarantee success for all. Racism, classism, xenophobia, islamophobia, and homophobia are deeply rooted in our democracy. The American Normal is a culture steeped in severe inequities and greed.
Curated by Furusho von Puttkammer, the sixteenth annual Art in Odd Places (AiOP): NORMAL is a public art and performance festival taking place from Avenue C to the Hudson River along 14th st in Manhattan, NY. Innovative multi and interdisciplinary hybrid projects that explore & expose the American Mythos, and actively engage the public, including installation, sculpture, and performance will be presented in the public realm.
Ars Electronica 2020 will take place not despite, but because of Corona. From September 9th to 13th, the Festival for Art, Technology and Society simply asks what to do now? And for the first time, this is not only being discussed in Linz - in the city center and on the beautiful JKU campus - but also in 120 locations around the world.
International Mini Print Cantabria | The 3rd edition of the International Mini Print Cantabria has a call for entries of mini prints on the theme The Sea and the Lighthouses,
VR Art Fair: Art Gate International 2020 | Art Gate is a virtual reality marketplace for collectors to acquire Post-War and Contemporary Art. Real artwork and real people from around the globe connect and collect art in VR. 100 people can simultaneously visit a gallery, exhibition tour, or artist talk. Art Gate makes it easy to buy and sell artworks in VR. Put on your headset and connect with the innovators of the art world during Art Gate International 2020.
Chania International Photo festival has been created by Blank Wall Gallery. Its aim is to gather more than 300 photographers from around the world
Art Basel, which stages three major fairs each year—in Hong Kong, Basel and Miami Beach—focuses on modern and contemporary art and puts more than 250 galleries and 4,000 artists from across the globe in front of the art world's top curators, museums and collectors
Villa Azur, in association with "Made In Russia" & "Pavillion Miami", presents an exclusive exhibition of internationally acclaimed artists, including recycled media and social practice artist Sam Heydt.
Sunset Rendezvous | Art Basel 2019 | Hyde Lounge Miami | Wednesday, December 4, 2019 6:00 PM